Wash-board



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B. BAILEY.

WASH BOARD.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

EPHRAIM BAILEY, OF WEST NEWBURY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND THOMAS S.BAILEY, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,175, dated October13, 1885.

Application filed July 10, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM BAILEY, of West Newbury, in the county ofEssex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovementsinWash-Boards, of which the following is. a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention relates to the peculiar construction and arrangement ofthe sectional and many-sided rollers in a wash-board, and in the mannerof supporting them centrally, and in alternating these rollers with eachother, as hereinafter described,and particularly pointed out in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a frame for a. Wash-board withmy improved roller applied thereto; Fig. 2, a vertical central sectionthrough line as w of Fig. 1.

A in the accompanying drawings represents the frame of a washboard,having cross-pieces B B, between which my improved rollers are arranged,the frame extending sufficiently above the crosspiece B to form asoap-box, T, and sufficiently below the crossbar B for the legs 0.

Upon a series of parallel spindles, F, supported at their ends byentering a short distance into the sides D of the frame, as shown indotted lines, are placed rollers E, having four wide flat surfaces, m,and four narrow surfaces, at, as shown in sectional view, Fig. 2. Thisform of construction is adopted because it is found to expedite'washingand more readily cleanse the garments than when the round roller isemployed.

And to still further add to the efficiency of the rollers annulardepressions V are formed, so as to divide the surface of each rollerinto sections of flat surfaces m n and depressions Serial No. 171,260.(ModeL) V, as shown in Fig. 1, and arranging the rollers on theirrespective spindles in the frame the depressions V and flat surfaces onn are placed alternately, so that the garment being washed passes overthe rollers from the depressions to the fiat surfaces from one to theother, as represented in the drawings.

And in order to prevent the rollers from warping or springing they areshortened by being divided into two sections or more,and to support thespindles centrally upon which the rollers are mounted, a rod, H,extending from the upper cross-bar, B, to the lower cross-bar, B, isprovided, upon which the spindles rest, the ends of the roller beingseparated, so as to admit the wire support H between them, as shown. Byconstructing the rollers in two or more sections they revolve muchlighter and lessen the labor of washing materially.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A wash-board constructed and arranged substantially as described,consisting of the frame A, sectional rollers E, and centralsupporting-rod, H, as set forth.

2. A wash-board constructed substantially as described, consisting ofthe frame A, sectional rollers E, having alternate flat surfaces m a andannular depressions V, and central supporting-rod, H, as and for thepurposes set forth. 7

3. A wash-board constructed substantially as described, consisting ofthe frame A, central supporting-rod, H, and sectional rollers E, havingflat surfaces m 'n and depressions V,-arranged so that the fiat surfacesin one roller are opposite to the depressions in the next followingroller, as set forth. v

EPHRAIM BAILEY. Witnesses:

JOHN F. MAYLAN, M. PERRY SARGENT.

